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This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite figures — most now forgotten or unknown — offer even more suggestive evidence of some of the countervailing forms of social practice that could survive even in that hostile era. If these men enjoyed such exemption largely because of the prerogatives of class privilege, their relative freedom was nevertheless a visible rebuke to the reductive stereotypes of homosexuality that circulated and were reinforced in the culture of the period. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of Henry James and queer studies, readers of late Victorian and modern literature, and those interested in the history and social construction of gender roles.

Gay men --- Gays, Male --- Homosexuals, Male --- Male gays --- Urnings --- Gays --- Men --- Social conditions --- James, Henry, --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Social history. --- Gender identity. --- Sex and law. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Social History. --- Gender and Sexuality. --- Gender, Sexuality and Law. --- Law and sex --- Sex crimes --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Descriptive sociology --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Sex --- Law and legislation --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- America—Literatures. --- Gender dysphoria

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This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its satellite figures — most now forgotten or unknown — offer even more suggestive evidence of some of the countervailing forms of social practice that could survive even in that hostile era. If these men enjoyed such exemption largely because of the prerogatives of class privilege, their relative freedom was nevertheless a visible rebuke to the reductive stereotypes of homosexuality that circulated and were reinforced in the culture of the period. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of Henry James and queer studies, readers of late Victorian and modern literature, and those interested in the history and social construction of gender roles.

Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Law --- Sexology --- American literature --- Literature --- World history --- emancipatie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- sociale geschiedenis --- wetgeving --- LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex and asexual) --- seksuologie --- gender --- James, Henry --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- America

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Widely considered James's first great work of fiction and highly innovative in its narrative techniques, The Portrait of a Lady follows the story of an ardent, idealistic American heroine, Isabel Archer, in a cosmopolitan Europe. It explores individual freedom amidst confining circumstance, romantic choice, and the consequences of disillusionment and betrayal. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1882), provides an authoritative text of one of James's finest long novels, with extensive annotations, a detailed textual history and an analysis of the reasons for its long-held popular appeal. It will be of particular interest not only to James scholars, but also book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.

Young women --- Americans --- Inheritance and succession --- Married people --- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Americans. --- Inheritance and succession. --- Married people. --- Triangles (Interpersonal relations). --- Young women. --- Amerikanisches Englisch. --- James, Henry, --- Andrae, A. --- Italy --- Italy.

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This volume attempts to determine the early influence shared between William Dean Howells and Henry James by reconstructing and evaluating documentary evidence of their literary cross-fertilisation. It includes 151 letters.

Authors, American --- James, Henry, --- Authors [American ] --- 19th century --- Correspondence --- 20th century --- Novelists [American ] --- Fiction --- Authorship --- James, Henry --- Howells, William Dean --- Critics --- United States --- Novelists, American --- Authorship. --- Howells, William Dean,